Best Quotes on the Dangers of AI.

The dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) are real. There are many benefits with AI, but also plenty of threats.

“An AI that could design novel biological pathogens. An AI that could hack into computer systems. I think these are all scary.” ~Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
“The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast — it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year time frame. 10 years at most.” ~Elon Musk
“If Elon Musk is wrong about artificial intelligence and we regulate it who cares. If he is right about AI and we don’t regulate it we will all care.” ~Dave Waters

“We need to do what has been done for airline safety, car safety, drug safety, medical device safety,” Blumenthal said. “AI safety is no different — in fact, potentially even more dangerous.” ~Richard Blumenthal, US Senator
“Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.” ~Vladimir Putin
“Deepfakes and misinformation are just two of the ways AI could have major negative impact on fake news.” ~Dave Waters
“No one backed off in saying we need government involvement. They understood that there needed to be government responsibility because let’s say even these companies would be willing to install guardrails on themselves — they’ll have competitors who won’t.” ~Chuck Schumer
“I thought Satya Nadella from Microsoft said it best: ‘When it comes to AI, we shouldn’t be thinking about autopilot. You need to have copilots. ‘ So who’s going to be watching this activity and making sure that it’s done correctly?” ~Maria Cantwell, US Senator
“My worst fear is that we, the industry, cause significant harm to the world. I think, if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong and we want to be vocal about that and work with the government on that.” ~Sam Altman
“The consequences of AI going wrong are severe so we have to be proactive rather than reactive.” ~Elon Musk

“Old is New Again: Nuclear Arms Race = Artificial Intelligence Race.” ~Dave Waters
“The AI Security Center will become NSA’s focal point for leveraging foreign intelligence insights, contributing to the development of best practices, guidelines, principles, evaluation methodology and risk frameworks for AI security, with an end goal of promoting the secure development, integration and adoption of AI capabilities within our national security systems and our defense industrial base.” ~General Paul Nakasone
“Congress should engage with AI to support innovation and safeguards. This is an emerging technology, there are important equities to balance here, and the government is ultimately responsible for that.” ~Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
“Learn about quantum computing, superintelligence and singularity. The inevitable is coming.” ~Dave Waters
“Whoever perceives that robots and artificial intelligence are merely here to serve humanity, think again. With virtual domestic assistants and driverless cars just the latest in a growing list of applications, it is we humans who risk becoming dumbed down and ultimately subservient to machines.” ~Alex Morritt
“AI is going to be the most transformative thing affecting us in the next decades. It’s going to affect every aspect of life. It has tremendous potential to do some really good things: cure cancer, make our food supply better, deal with our national security, help our education. It has tremendous potential to do bad things: allow continuation of bias, throw many people out of work and even let some of our adversaries get ahead of us.” ~Chuck Schumer
“Regulation must account for the context in which AI is deployed.” ~Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM
“There is some chance that is above zero that AI will kill us all. I think it’s low. But if there’s some chance, I think we should also consider the fragility of human civilization.” ~Elon Musk
“With AI we can’t be like ostriches sticking our heads in the sand.” Chuck Schumer
“AI security is about protecting AI systems from learning, doing and revealing the wrong thing. It is a set of practices to protect AI systems and lifecycles from digital attacks, theft and damage. We must build a robust understanding of AI vulnerabilities, foreign intelligence threats to these AI systems and ways to counter the threat in order to have AI security. We must also ensure that malicious foreign actors can’t steal America’s innovative AI capabilities to do so.” ~General Paul Nakasone
“Listening to Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking talk about artificial intelligence reminds me of the Jurassic Park scene where they talk about chaos theory.” ~Dave Waters